City Calendar

Virtual STEAM Story Time: FlyingFun

Online,

We invite children and their grownups to join us from home for 20-25 minutes of stories and hands-on activities from the Cambridge STEAM Initiative's STEAM@Home collection available on Find It Cambridge. Caregivers are asked to participate in the program as they will be exploring STEAM with a variety of materials! Gather activity materials before Story Time if you plan to participate in the hands-on activities. Register below. Zoom link will be emailed to registrants one hour before the program begins. Virtual STEAM Story Time is free and open to the public and is not recorded. If you register but later find you cannot attend, please remember to cancel your registration to make space for others. Flick Your Wrist: Experimenting with Frisbee Throws Materials: 2 Paper Plates Tape Scissors Markers or Crayons Fly Fly Away: Designing Paper Airplanes Materials: Paper: Copy, Construction, or Newspaper work best Tape Scissors 2 Straws

Special City Council Meeting

Henrietta S. Attles Meeting Room, 459 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138

Special City Council Meeting

Summer Reading: Dinoman Presents Dinosaurs

Online,

Stomp on over for a trip to the Mesozoic Era! Explore dinosaur behavior and find out about fossils. Recommended for ages 5 and up. We invite children and their grownups to join us from home for a live show presented on Zoom. Register below. Zoom link will be emailed to registrants one hour before the program begins. Virtual Summer Reading Programs are free and open to the public and are not recorded. If you register but later find you cannot attend, please remember to cancel your registration to make space for others. Summer Reading is sponsored by the Cambridge Public Library Foundation, Friends of the Cambridge Public Library, East Cambridge Savings Bank, the Massachusetts Library System, the Boston Bruins, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

CANCELLED: Bicycle Committee Meeting

City Hall Annex, 4th Floor Conference Room, 344 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139

Regular Meeting of the Bicycle Committee.

Election Commission

Online,

Regular Meeting

Lifting up Cambridge Womxn's History: Womxn Take the Streets

Join us for an intergenerational conversation on how to create more just and equitable public spaces in Cambridge

Virtual Family Story Time

Online,

We invite children and their grownups to join us from home for 20-25 minutes of songs, stories, and rhymes. Caregivers are asked to participate in the program with their children--it will be as important as ever to model movement and song for your little one during this virtual session. Plan to join in, sing along, and move around! Register below. Zoom link will be emailed to registrants one hour before the program begins. Virtual Family Story Time is free and open to the public and is not recorded. If you register but later find you cannot attend, please remember to cancel your registration to make space for others.

Valente Branch Summer Children's Book Giveaway

Valente Branch, 826 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02141

Keep Reading and Keep Learning! The Cambridge Public Library invites children and families who are picking up lunch at Cambridge Summer Food Program sites near our branch libraries to also take home a book of their own to keep during the week of August 10. The Valente Branch Library will have books available at the King Open School lunch site (840 Cambridge St.), while supplies last. One book per child, while supplies last. These books are provided by the Cambridge Public Library Foundation. Please wear a face covering and maintain a social distance of 6 feet or more from library staff.

Summer Reading: Jenny the Juggler

Online,

A fabulous variety show including juggling, magic, music, and more. We invite children and their grownups to join us from home for a live show presented on Zoom. Register below. Zoom link will be emailed to registrants one hour before the program begins. Virtual Summer Reading Programs are free and open to the public and are not recorded. If you register but later find you cannot attend, please remember to cancel your registration to make space for others. Summer Reading is sponsored by the Cambridge Public Library Foundation, Friends of the Cambridge Public Library, East Cambridge Savings Bank, the Massachusetts Library System, the Boston Bruins, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

Nineteenth Amendment Selection Committee Virtual Meeting

The Nineteenth Amendment Selection Committee will meet to interview four artists/artist teams regarding their proposals for artwork commemorating the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment.